The Stakeholder
The Steve Pearce Legacy: Rising Debt and Limitless Hypocrisy
Steve Pearce's announcement today smacks of the same kind of hypocrisy New Mexicans heard over and over again during his time in Congress during the Bush Administration.
"With his reckless fiscal leadership having helped create the problem, Steve Pearce's rhetoric about fighting for New Mexico families just doesn't match up with reality," said Andy Stone, Western Regional Press Secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "Pearce's record is dripping with the kind of hypocrisy that New Mexicans rejected in the last election."
- Despite all of his rhetoric about the economy, Steve Pearce and George Bush's reckless leadership created the economic crisis, growing the federal debt by $2.3 trillion from $3.5 trillion to $5.8 trillion;
- Pearce talked a good game about supporting our men and women in uniform but voted against funding for veterans' programs 14 times, even opposing a bonus for U.S. troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan;
- Pearce voted against border security funding and agents at least seven times despite giving lip service to the need for border security;
- Pearce hailed the decision to award a COPS grant to the Las Cruces Police Department, but voted to slash Community Oriented Police Services funding; and
- Pearce said he opposed privatizing Social Security in his 2002 campaign, but then turned around and advocated for President Bush's risky privatization plan.
